Category Archives: Model Horse Talk

My New Model Horse Website!

Hey everyone! Finally completed my Model Horse specific website! This website is dedicated to the Model Horse hobby along with other animal art I create. You can view galleries of my completed pieces, shop, order a commission, check commission status … Continue reading

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Maggie Bennett Pewter Micro Mini Friesian – “Duncan”

Newly complete, I present to you “Duncan”! Duncan started out as Maggie Bennett’s Friesian Micro Mini mold.  The mold has unfortunately been discontinued and long sold out. I am super lucky to have had the opportunity to paint one. It’s … Continue reading

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Drastic Custom My Little Pony Epona!

I just realized that I never created a blog post for My Little Epona!  She is a drastically repositioned 3rd generation my little pony. This was also my first project requiring a base! I’m very happy with the way she … Continue reading

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How To Paint A Breyer Tutorial- Dark Bay / Black Clydesdale Part 1

With my recent project, I’ve decided to try taking a photo of each layer and put it together as sort of a visual step-by-step process. Part one will cover the overall base of the body color for creating the dark … Continue reading

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Custom Breyer Leopard Appaloosa Scrambling Foal – Finally Done!

Hooray! I’ve finally finished her! She’s come a very long way (as you can tell from previous posts) and I’ve learned so much with this piece.  I call her “Little Nugget”.  I’m not completely sure why…perhaps because of the “nugget … Continue reading

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Rainbow Brite’s “Starlite” Done & For Sale!

Ok folks, finally finished this little fellow.  My version of Rainbow Bright’s trusty companion “Starlite”. Body: Pearl White acrylics. Hair: Re-sculpted with Apoxie, painted with pastels & pearl white acrylic overlay Hooves & Star: Pearl white acrylic with gold watercolor overlay. (You can … Continue reading

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How To Strip Paint Off Of A Custom Breyer – Tutorial

So a little while back I purchased a body box of some Breyer Stablemates to work on. 4 of them were painted. Some more than the others but the paint jobs were poor and with a lot of globs and … Continue reading

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Leopard Appy – Take Two

Ok…so as you know I started over on my little leopard appaloosa foal.  So far I think she’s a milion times better than before!  Here is her progress up to today: First Layer of Pastels: 3rd Layer of Pastels: 2 … Continue reading

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Learning Realistic Patterns

Ok. So I decided I wanted to try a realistic pattern for one of my CM’s.  Thanks to everyone at modelhorseblab.com I’ve received many tips and advice on how to achieve this. I started with this little Breyer Stablemate scrambling … Continue reading

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My First Custom Horse

I have quite a few model horse “firsts” that I started but this here is the first that has been complete. Meet “Sprite”! Here is her progress from start to finish.  She started out as a horribly painted Safari Brand … Continue reading

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